my mom started teaching me cursive in the first grade and i practiced it all the time.

I don't think I've used it since elementary school...

I was taught in first grade and use it more often then not. We learned the abominable "modern" D'Nealian script but I've moved past it.

no wait- it wasn't my mom- it was this tv show on the public tv channel- it's funny, the lady on the show reminded me of my mom. freaky. but true.

@Little p Latch key kid? I was.

not really- only for brief periods of time, but i spent most of my time as a kid by myself unless i was at like, gymnastics or one of those sports ya gotta do.

what's your cursive story?

since domestica, though I like their older stuff as well.

2nd grade.

I only use it to sign receipts and personal checks.

Sometimes I use it in greeting cards, postcards, and letters to my grandma.

@Little p Public school that insisted we use it for many grades after. Some teachers wouldn't accept work that wasn't in cursive. Since I could write faster with it than block lettering I kept on using it. Now I'm one of the rare souls in the West who still uses it on a regular basis.

@om nom nom Didn't see that one coming. I was expecting to see something along the lines of "About 8 years old from my dad. But I only swear when I get really mad or stub my toe".

oh yay!! the storms of early summer!!! fab.

THE COAST IS CLEAR!

@joe- i can't believe you remember the D'Nealian or whatever - man, you really paid attention!

I just remembered learning "that thing where the letters stick together"

and then i would get off the school bus and go get lost in the woods for 5 hours

I started learning cursive in second grade.. haven't used it much since it wasn't mandatory to do so in school, which is probably since about seventh grade. My cursive was never that great. I prefer my own style of mixed cursive and printing.

First grade, in our school system you learned cursive and print at the same time, hoping that it would just melt together in your brain, but I think I stopped using it in 3rd grade, because that's when I was moved to the T.A.G program, which was were they stuck all the smartie pants kids who were too busy doodling and talking to themselves to be buggered with normal class. So, being a T.A.G student, much like one of the 'special' kids, I got a lot of excuses for my behavior and my shitty shitty hand writing. My guidance counselorsaid my brain couldn't keep up with my hand and if the teacher wanted to read what I wrote, they better let me do it in print.

so they did.

Now I use it for nothing, when I have to sign something it's a big B and an artsy squiggle.

I was homeschooled, so it has been since forever for me. And in highschool, I learned some calligraphy but it is all lost now.

I use a mix of cursive and block print daily. I write faster cursive, except for some words I have trouble spelling. If I buy a Parker 75 fountain pen, I'll definitely practice by cursive penmenship.

And yes, learned D'Nealian as well. I remember going to bookstores and buying the workbooks with my mom.

I started learning it in first grade (1985) and I write in modified D'Nealian combined with print pretty much to this day. I could never stand how some of the letters look, like "b" and "s", so I changed them. I pretty much just connect normal-looking print b's and s's with other letters. It annoyed my teachers to no end!

God, I said "pretty much" twice. Gross.

I must have learned it the same time as you guys, 1-2nd grade, but I don't specifically remember learning it. Nowadays, I use a bastardized version of both. I agree with Ethan, where some of the letters didn't look right, so I print them. Like r. And my cursive ks never look right, which is why people get my last name wrong all the time.

I write almost exclusively in print, but if I'm scribbling or trying to write things down quickly, then certain cursive letters will appear, like S's and R's and N's and craphole, but it's still mostly printing.

I learned it in like 2nd grade, I guess? and then was required to use it towards 3rd or 4th. But around that time we started using computers in class and they started asking us to type up our reports and cursive became unnecessary.

The only thing I can totally write in cursive is my dang name and even that has just become a series of squiggles anymore.

I remember learning in 3rd and 4th grade. I don't use it anymore, except in my signature. And that is mostly scribbles.

learnt in grade 1 was not allowed to use a pen till I was in grade 5 and when I was allowed to use a pen, it was a fountain pen.I still use it for the most part.